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Review:

So there is Eddie, a high school boy whose favorite metal singer has died. A radio DJ gives him the only vinyl copy of Sammi Curr’s final album and tells him that he will broadcast a tape recording of the album on Halloween. Eddie starts experimenting with playing records backwards and indeed makes contact with Sammi. This seems like a good thing because now Eddie can stand his ground against his bullies. But while Eddie is a true metalhead and thus a truly gentle man, Sammi is up to no good and plans to return from the grave .

Yes, those were the eighties. Technology has improved since then, high school bullies and lying pastors are basically the same today, and to be honest, things have gone a little downhill for fashion, music and movies. This is an 80s movie. Sure, it’s not Back To The Future, and when they tried to get a sitcom star they had to go with Marc Price instead of Michael J. Fox. But still this movie is a carefree piece of fun. Imdb lists it as horror and comedy and music movie. The latter is not entirely correct. There is not that much music in it, for a big part of the movie the music is played backwards, and the soundtrack was provided mostly by Fastway. While it is true that Fast Eddie Clarke has been the first guitarist of Motörhead, getting rid of him was a giant leap in the right direction for Lemmy.

By the way way, small parts in this movie are played by Gene Simmons and Ozzy Ozbourne. Not everybody will remember, but Ozzy has not always been an obnoxious TV celeb like Donald Trump or Bruce Jenner. Back in his days he was a legend, in a way even bigger than Gene Simmons, and I guess for many people he still is today.

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